Jiyoun Park is Associate Professor at the School of International Studies, Jeonbuk National University (ROK). She was a Research Fellow at the Research Institute for North Korea and Northeast Asia Development, the
Export-Import Bank of Korea. She received her PhD from the Ewha Womans University (ROK) following an MA from the University of York (UK). Her research interests are related to economic statecraft including both positive and negative sanctions. She has recently published “Cash-based aid and civil war violence” in Research and Politics (2022), “Are smart sanctions smart enough?” in International Political Science Review (2022), “The clean development mechanism (CDM) as a financial platform for North Korea\'s development” in Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy (2018). She can be reached at jyp@jbnu.ac.kr.